Germaine Greer

"The greatest act of rebellion is to live authentically."

"We are not interested in the symbols of power but in the substance of power."

"The future of feminism lies in the hands of women who refuse to compromise."

"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."

"The female eunuch is not just a woman who has been castrated, but any woman who has accepted her culturally prescribed role."

"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life."

"Perhaps women have always been in a state of semi-consciousness; accepting the unacceptable."

"The great unhappiness so many women know is the unhappiness of not being themselves."

"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful woman has passed into and out of your life, then you have missed one of the most soul-enriching experiences possible."

"Every woman knows that, regardless of all her support systems, she is truly on her own."

"A man adores a woman who loves him."

"The tragedy is not that women are enslaved; the tragedy is that they do not know it."

"Real freedom is the ability to define yourself for yourself."

"If women are to effect a significant amelioration in their condition, it seems obvious that they should begin by changing the traditional constellation of human relationships."

"The saddest thing about any woman is that she has been robbed of her authentic self."

"Women's sexuality is a key to her power, yet she remains ignorant of this truth."

"Advertising has taught us not to trust our own judgment."

"One of the most disheartening aspects of resistance is that people resist change even when it promises to free them."

"The tragedy of sexual politics is that women have been convinced to surrender their own authority."

"Men live lives of noisy desperation."

"Female orgasm is a battlefield on which the larger war of female autonomy is fought."

"We have nothing to lose and a world to win."

"The resentment which female chastity engenders is not often admitted."

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

"To call a woman a mistress is not honoring her choices."

"The older woman's love is not love of herself, but love of others without regard for herself."

"In every woman there is a wild thing at the heart of her."

"Patriarchy is the institutional expression of male dominance over women."

"The ignorance of women is not natural; it is deliberately cultivated."

"A woman who does not take part in the social order is a threat."